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Solovar

Solovar is a fictional superhero character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Solovar is a sapient gorilla and leader of a race of gorillas that first appeared as supporting characters of Flash.

Solovar appears in The Flash, voiced by Keith David.

Solovar first appeared in The Flash #106 and was created by John Broome and Carmine Infantino.

For many years, Solovar is the leader of Gorilla City, a hidden city inhabited by intelligent gorillas. Renowned for his wisdom and psychic powers, he is virtually unchallenged, except by the villainous Gorilla Grodd and his servant Monsieur Mallah. Under Solovar's guidance, Gorilla City is a technological utopia.

In the JLApe: Gorilla Warfare! storyline, Solovar decides his people can no longer use their science to hide from the human world. Believing that the world's ecological and political problems cannot be solved by ignoring them, he opens Gorilla City's borders to the world and asks for membership in the United Nations. During his second visit to the United States, Solovar is assassinated by the Simian Scarlet, a group of rebels from Gorilla City.

Following his death, Solovar is briefly succeeded as king by his nephew Ulgo, who declares war on humanity and attacks the United Nations and the Justice League with a weapon that transforms them into gorillas. After the Justice League stops Ulgo, he is succeeded by Nnamdi, Solovar's son.

During the Blackest Night event, Barry Allen races to Gorilla City to seek aid from Solovar, not knowing of his death. Finding the city ravaged, Barry assumes that Grodd has attacked, only to discover that Solovar has been resurrected as a Black Lantern. Barry destroys Solovar by dragging his body through the air at super-speed, reducing him to dust.

In The New 52 reboot, Solovar is the founder and first ruler of Gorilla City, regarded as the Forefather of his species. He, his followers, and his family have existed since the apex of the Maya civilization, which was destroyed in a Speed Force storm. A bolt of Speed Force energy struck Solovar and a few other apes within the vicinity, creating the first few in a new generation of superintelligent gorillas who would come to found Gorilla City.

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